Posted on 02/11/2014 8:11:08 AM PST by Second Amendment First
What if they were convicted of felony voter fraud?
I agree. Give everyone a voter ID first to prevent fraud. Sorry, I cannot trust a criminal. Silly that way.
Who knows, felons might not voting for Dems in the near future. The Dems have always been party of big government but they are now the new face of the authoritarian police state and tyranny.
Felon voting rights are a state issue and yes 2nd amendment rights are for all free men.
They get fast-tracked to a lifetime job with the Just-Us Dept.
Laying the groundwork for himself.
Ya don’t suppose that this might have something to do with most X felons voting Democrat do you? Naw, thought not.
Several generations of Americans believed these were reasonable protections to the people.
Holder looking ahead not wanting to lose his own rights I’ll bet.
Like amnesty, this is all about votes. Question is will Repubs have to guts to fight it.
As usual, Holder is exercising his “Inner Alinsky” - lying to further communism.
Taking Florida as an example, it has long been the case that felons can have their rights restored.
The procedure is clear, well defined, and also available from any computer.
Holder, like Obama, is lying.
Trying to think of what race/ethnic/political leaning group has the largest percentage of convicted felons that can’t legally vote because of prior criminal misconduct.
Hmmm... Not coming to me.
Perhaps if Mr. Holder would care to enlighten us as to the breakdown of the proposed blocks of voters and who might possible benefit most from this proposal I could understand his thinking better... /s
That's where I was going to go. Let's take it further. Our Constitution does not guarantee all a "right" to vote. In fact, originally, "land owners" were invited to vote as they had a stake in the governance of the nation and property laws.
Now our Attorney General would like the MOST corrupt of our civilian governance to have some influence in our elected representatives? Really? Should we let them vote from prison? This is a class of citizenry that is most susceptible to corruption and undue influence. Why would we want to invite that voting block into an already suspect system? That's right, because they would vote with democrats and are easy to find.
” this is all about votes.”
Black votes.
” Question is will Repubs have to guts to fight it.”
No.
Factually incorrect. Most such laws were passed well before the Civil War. Here's a link to the history from a site in favor of removing such restrictions.
http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000016
They’ll be given 6 months of intense schooling at the Dept. of Justice on how not to get caught again and awarded degrees so they can teach at Universities throughout the country
The Constitution did not get into the weeds of who would be able to vote. That was entirely a state issue.
At the time, some states already had near universal white male suffrage. Others were much more restrictive. Those in RI lasted up to the 1840s and led to the only real civil war within a state in US history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorr_Rebellion#Aftermath
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